Ethan Phillips is an undergraduate Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pursuing a BSPH in Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and a BA in Public Policy with a minor in Chemistry. Ethan has 7 years of experience in community-based adolescent and young adult mental health advocacy, having led the formation of multiple cross-sector collaborative stakeholder coalitions at the school, county, and regional level. As a result … Continued

Ethan Phillips is an undergraduate Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pursuing a BSPH in Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and a BA in Public Policy with a minor in Chemistry. Ethan has 7 years of experience in community-based adolescent and young adult mental health advocacy, having led the formation of multiple cross-sector collaborative stakeholder coalitions at the school, county, and regional level. As a result of his work in mental health access promotion, Ethan co-authored a case study in an Oxford-published and CDC-supported handbook and was named a Youth Mental Health Leader in 2017 by the National Center for School Mental Health. Ethan has worked as a research assistant at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention since February 2020, researching the effects of COVID-19 on food insecurity and food access policy in rural North Carolina. After serving on the UNC undergraduate student government executive branch mental health committee, the Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor, and the Campus and Community Advisory Committee to COVID-19 Spring 2021 Planning, Ethan now serves as the Undergraduate Student Government Director of Student Wellness and Safety. Ethan is academically and professionally interested in evidence-based improvement to access, equity, and quality in health care.